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<p>[QUOTE="TuckHard, post: 7708960, member: 102653"]Wow this is an incredible group! It's really cool to see these in such large numbers. May I ask where they were discovered? The rising sun coins used to be widely attributed to Funan, modern south Vietnam, but in recent times it seems to have shifted towards modern Burma who Funan imported them from. I see a handful of variants that are mostly attributed to old cities in Burma, too. Super cool silver coins, I don't have any of the larger coins yet but I do have a handful of these tiny bracteate coins (only 0.03 grams!) that are attributed to the kingdom of Michen along the Gulf of Martaban.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1322503[/ATTACH] </p> <p style="text-align: center">Michen Kingdom of Lower Burma</p> <p style="text-align: center">c. 775-835 AD</p> <p style="text-align: center">AR Bracteate (1/2 ratti) | 0.03 g | 7mm</p> <p style="text-align: center">Obv: Four-petalled flower with stem and dimple within flower</p> <p style="text-align: center">Rev: Reversed impression</p> <p style="text-align: center">Ref: Than Htun PL 155.3, Mitchiner#565-571, Krisadaolarn A403</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TuckHard, post: 7708960, member: 102653"]Wow this is an incredible group! It's really cool to see these in such large numbers. May I ask where they were discovered? The rising sun coins used to be widely attributed to Funan, modern south Vietnam, but in recent times it seems to have shifted towards modern Burma who Funan imported them from. I see a handful of variants that are mostly attributed to old cities in Burma, too. Super cool silver coins, I don't have any of the larger coins yet but I do have a handful of these tiny bracteate coins (only 0.03 grams!) that are attributed to the kingdom of Michen along the Gulf of Martaban. [CENTER][ATTACH=full]1322503[/ATTACH] Michen Kingdom of Lower Burma c. 775-835 AD AR Bracteate (1/2 ratti) | 0.03 g | 7mm Obv: Four-petalled flower with stem and dimple within flower Rev: Reversed impression Ref: Than Htun PL 155.3, Mitchiner#565-571, Krisadaolarn A403[/CENTER][/QUOTE]
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